Surprise Quotes

When we would say 'No way,' he would say, 'My way.' Then the ones who doubted would scramble to salv...

I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

It's great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

What is a whore?"Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span ...

Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyon...

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

Jazz and poetry both involve a structure that may be familiar and to some extent predictable. And th...

Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

Humans were always surprising me.

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projecti...

That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admirat...

These occasions always took him by surprise. He was shocked anew each time the crisply surveyed, nea...

The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What p...

I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I ne...

Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!

The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equ...

That of all people, it should be him; that took her aback. That the heart should settle on somebody ...

War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, a...

Hope is not logical. It always comes as a surprise, just when you think all hope is lost. Hope is th...

The secret to humor is surprise.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they s...

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with som...

An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only. . . . We do not enjoy a story ful...

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Whenever death may surprise us, let it be welcome if our battle cry has reached even one receptive e...

A laugh is a surprise. And all humor is physical. I was always athletic, so that came naturally to m...

Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty,...

Humor is a spontaneous, wonderful bit of an outburst that just comes. It's unbridled, its unplanned,...

Pope Benedict XVI's resignation is big on buzz but is not the stunning surprise claimed by many pund...

Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some ...

What's happened to me,' he thought. It was no dream.

Art must take reality by surprise.

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a...

Nick shook his head and found to his surprise that he did have tears left after all. He wasn't surpr...

There are two kinds of taste in the appreciation of imaginative literature: the taste for emotions o...

I doubt whether the world holds for any one a more soul-stirring surprise than the first adventure w...

There's no longer any surprise in noting that China has grave environmental problems.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity, it should strike the reader as a wor...

Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative pote...

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul w...

There can never be surprises in logic.

Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.

I stood on my toes and stole a soft kiss from his lips. "Surprise attack," I said.Sam leaned down an...

Why is it always such a surprise? thinks Toby. The moon. Even though we know it's coming. Every time...

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same...